Forum:What's in a name?

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Back on Halopedia, Subtank pointed out that there's already a Wikia equivalent of this wiki, and it is also called Destinypedia. She also argues that our name needs to be something a little more unique, like Memory Alpha for Star Trek's wiki. I agree, but currently don't see anything topical enough to change this wiki's name to; there's just not enough canon yet. However, I'd agree with a name change later. What do you guys say?

Or we could make them change their name! To war!!! >:C Tuckerscreator (talk) 02:53, 18 February 2013 (EST)

I'll copypasta my response: I'm open to ideas I can get the .com domain for. I reached-out to them and got mostly no response and one nasty response, and that didn't make me feel sympathetic or anything. I figured it would just be something like minecraftwiki.net and minecraft.wikia.com - just live our lives separately even if the name is the same. Also, their SITENAME is "Destiny Wiki" (as is destiny.wikia.com). If I changed Destinypedia's SITENAME to Destiny Wiki then there would be three with SITENAME Destiny Wiki, and two with a Destinypedia URL. I like that we own the .com and our stuff matches. Wikia's got two Destiny wikis and their legit ones are usually "game-name".wikia.com AKA destiny.wikia.com. I wouldn't be surprised if they end up with just one called "Destiny Wiki" at destiny.wikia.com somehow. Anyways, I say keep an open-mind to new names and if I can snag a good domain name for it then that's something to consider. --Porplemontage (talk) 03:00, 18 February 2013 (EST)

Maybe Travelerpedia? But then we would probably cofuse people who want to go hiking...(btw not kidding) Guardianpedia? What other things have been named that are important to the series? Also, I just had a "Samus is a girl?!" moment about subtank :) CraZboy557 (talk) 07:23, 18 February 2013 (EST)

I think we should keep it at Destinypedia for the moment. Not having the name of the game inside the wiki/pedia name is weird. It will also take allot more SEO skills to get us listed correctly in Google since the name doesn't contain 'Destiny'. We also need to make sure that if people search "Destiny Wiki" they get us, which is not the case at the moment. Sgtfrankieboy (talk) 07:35, 18 February 2013 (EST)

[copy-paste] Might I suggest destinywiki.net as the domain name: .net because the game is described as a MMORPG-FPS title and it requires constant network for the game to work... get it? Hah... guess not... never mind. Anyway, with the suggestion in mind, we could also have some unique wiki name, maybe Ad Astra, to distinct ourselves from the rest of the "competing wikis" (the two wikis in Wikia are competing with one another). It would definitely stick in the minds of players when they see the motto "Per Audacia Ad Astra"... plus, we can even use that as our wiki motto (and wiki logo). Double win! Also, make sure to get better article enforcement given what we've experienced these past few years as an independent wiki. Quality over Quantity, Accuracy/Concise over Speculation/Rumour, and of all thing... CITATIONs! Wouldn't want to repeat the ancient issues this wiki has experienced in the early days. Good luck with the wiki! — subtank 02:30, 19 February 2013 (EST)

I don't know that Adastraian or whatever is much better, plus we'd be fighting for Google space with a lot of other companies/organizations named Ad Astra (as opposed to just one other site named Destinypedia). I just thought of Destipedia/Destipedian, but I'm not sure about it. We could keep Destinypedia but call ourselves Destipedians... --Porplemontage (talk) 04:06, 19 February 2013 (EST)

You don't necessarily have to call the users of a particular wiki after the wiki name. Since we're aiming for uniqueness (and simplicity in so far that it clicks in reader's mind), we could simply refer ourselves as "Guardians" since we're playing as one in the game (unless we can play as one of the enemy factions). To clarify in bulletpoints:

• Domain name: either destiny-wiki.net, destinywiki.org (which redirects to destinypedia.com), or destiny-wiki.com. I would prefer the first one but the second one would work out well.
• Wiki name: either Ad Astra, Destiny Wiki or {whatever stands out in the game}
• Title for users of the wiki: Guardians (unless the game/someone-else provides something better)

Or.... Destiny's Child... really like this one. — subtank 04:35, 19 February 2013 (EST)

Being a Guardian would be cool. Always use the DMR. This is craZboy557, signing off. 12:25, 19 February 2013 (EST)

Hi guys, i'm just wondering why we called the site Destinypedia in the first place. I mean in the 'Destinypedia's about page' it says that they've been using the name since December 2011? -DarkKnight

Because the owner of this site is also owner of http://halopedia.org. Thus its pretty logical for the site to be called destinypedia. Sgtfrankieboy (talk) 17:13, 20 February 2013 (EST)

I can note that destiny.wikia was the first (created on May 23, '12), followed by destinypedia.wikia (created on September 19, '12) and now this wiki (domain registered on November 28, '12). This is all publicly-available information. As for why "destinypedia", it's a common naming convention to use "{GAME}pedia". I've made several suggestions with regards to changing the wiki name to something of unique identity in my previous comment but no one has replied yet. — subtank 21:17, 20 February 2013 (EST)